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...Enid, tornado sirens begin to shriek with an otherworldly howl. The sky is now black as night. Only a dim outline of the horizon betrays the threatening shape of the cloud formations. Several cars fish tail dangerously down the flooded streets. From the radio an announcer yells: "Take shelter! Get downstairs!" He adds that a tornado has just destroyed mobile homes west of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: Chasing Twisters | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Another student says she did not like the idea of an issue she knew little about "being tacked on the tail end of one I obviously support: divestiture...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Afro-American Studies: On the Threshold | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...notes that a "retirement effect" induces people to retire early or work less to receive more benefits. He says that, although there is a lot of concern about how social security should be financed, "if social security induces people to retire early, it's sort of chasing its own tail in trying to finance it." He, like other researchers at the bureau, is building a simulation model and will then input data on population and labor sources, as well as behavioral estimates...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Economics, Harvard Style | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...best hopes are that the Government would not allow the industry to be dominated by GM and Ford alone, and that lacocca somehow will improve the company's shabby planning and marketing. Says Sperlich: "We are looking to old General Patton to kick a lot of tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler's Skid | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...have been using more sophisticated dredges to scoop up lobsters. In all too many cases, young females are removed before they have had a chance to reproduce; often they are taken under the typical state legal limit of 3 3/16 in. from eye socket to the beginning of the tail, a restraint that may still be too lax, according to scientists. The result: a dwindling lobster catch even in such once fertile waters as those off Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lobster Bodega | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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